COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba

The COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Cuba on 11 March 2020 when three Italian tourists tested positive for the virus

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 * Did you know that of the nearly 1200 health professional Cubans involved in fighting COVID-19 around the world, more than half are women? Join the campaign to award them the Nobel Prize. https://cubanobel.org  #CubaNobel
 * Medea Benjamin, Twitter (21 June 2020)
 * Fantastic article by Cuba’s Ambassador to Canada, @JosefinaVidalF, about the 2 pandemics facing Cuba: COVID and the US embargo. #CubaNobel
 * Medea Benjamin, Twitter (22 June 2020)


 * Cuban doctors arrive in Martinique to fight coronavirus. "The only thing that motivates us is to save lives, that's the most important thing in the eyes of a Cuban doctor.” That’s why they could get the Nobel Prize.  (27 June 2020)
 * Medea Benjamin, Twitter (27 June 2020)


 * Maybe Sen. @marcorubio should stop sabotaging Cuba’s international health brigades fighting Covid around the world, and instead invite them to help stop the spread in his own state of Florida!
 * Medea Benjamin, Twitter  (5 Jul 2020)


 * The Cuban superpower was once again ready to help with doctors and equipment.
 * Noam Chomsky, interviewed in Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism (April 1, 2020) by C.J. Polychroniou, 


 * Cooperated in Africa to fight Ebola, they made an important contribution to the health of the world.
 * Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, quoted in Top diplomatic negotiator in Cuba warns Trump: 'aggression doesn't work',  Helen Yaffe in Havana and Jonathan Watts, The Guardian (17 Jan 2017)